Let's Look at Prisms
...and rock this!!!
ACTIVITY #1 Prisms are all around us.
Next, click on the website below to explore prisms. Notice the number of faces, vertices, and edges of each different pyramid shape. (You will have to click the "back arrow" to get back to this page.)
*Time manager, please allow 7 minutes for your team to complete this activity.
ACTIVITY #2 cAn YoU nAmE tHaT pRiSm?
Activity #3 Hands on - Box Measurement
*Time Manager, please allow up to 10 minutes for this.
Activity #4 Let's Engineer some Blue Prints!
(Below, you will see what the app looks like.)
Click to add it. Once you have done that, You are going to sketch the "net" your box. Please be sure to indicate the dimensions of each side of your figure, and include points of visible vertices. Please also indicate at the bottom, the number of faces your "box" has.
*Find one more additional prisms in the classroom that you and your team discussed in activity 1. Measure that prism, and create a diagram blue print of it below your box.
Activity #5 Find the Perimeter!
Keep tabs on how well you did!